Dr. Susan Hoppert-Flaemig

While writing my PhD, I discovered my passion for Peace Research. I have a background in Political Science and Sociology. My research interests include peacebuilding, institutional change, policy making, critical security studies, security sector reforms, intercultural studies and Central American studies.

In September 2016, I completed my PhD in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK. In my thesis, entitled ‘Striving for security: State responses to violence under the FMLN government in El Salvador 2009-2014’, I analysed police and prison reforms in El Salvador, arguing that security policy making results to a significant extent from elite power struggles.

I work as a research analyst and will be giving a course in conflict transformation at the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 2017.